Whats with WHT?

I usually don't make topics like this, but they deleted my post and that pissed me off. Hell I wasn't even going to make this topic but they actually emailed me the "infraction" or whatever the frack they call it...

So I found some guy selling a completely sh*tty template, here is the Link. Kid want's 110$ for it. So I replied to the topic saying:

Unique my ass, no one is going to pay 110$ for such garbage. Stop posting such useless templates that could be designed in hours by a 16 year old kid finishing a project by his teacher..

This also speaks volumes about your company in your signature. Who would want to sign up for your hosting when you offer insane and unrealistic prices? You should really try to re-think your business module. Good luck...

These templates are no way unique and not even border-line worth 10$.

Have a nice day,

Okay, I get it, I was being a bit obnoxious. But what really pissed me off is the next one:

Also, not everyone is perfect. If you think a couple typo's make a company bad, you're living in your own little world.

Merely just backing up the original host, I mean why would someone like "servedby" put a company down when he/she hasn't even hosted with them? Shouldn't that post be the one that gets deleted? I mean it's pretty sad. So in any event, my post got deleted and I received 2 "Infractions" for being "rude".

Also, the "Keyword Alert Tool" they offer is basically the same as the free version of google alerts, but inside vbulletin? It's definitely not worth it. They have thousands of google bot's crawling that forum anyway, you're most likely to get the same results from using google's; hell it might even be better. Oh I must not forget, a bolded blue username!

Any entrepreneur would know that investing 100$/month for a "forum badge" is pretty ludicrous, or I would hope so... unless I am missing something? Oh, and you get "1,000 Private Messages space"

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If it is in the advertising forums, it is pretty clear in the rules you aren't to post things like that. Right from the rules:

"Negative comments on advertisements are not allowed. For example, if you think the price is too high or the design isn’t good, leave the ad for other people to form their own opinions. If you think the offer is fraudulent, please contact the helpdesk."

I think it is simple, WHT is running by volunteers who have no interests in running the community in essence (most of the mods are in hosting business themselves and use this to build their business network and stuff), and they would like to show their muscles once a while to tell the world who is in power...I mean, on WHT :)

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@cosmicgate said: easy peasy. create a new account from receivee and troll?

You'd better find yourself a new IP/email to do that :)

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I think that dude runs a crappy dedicated server host called Jones solutions or some [email protected] like that...and charge a ridiculous amount for those who signed up due to his "reputation" on WHT...

***EDIT**** Never mind, that's the "net" guy, not sure what is bear running...

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@24khost said: I like the fact that if you say, something about email me and I can help you with something nothing related to sales they take this as solicitation. So you can't help anybody.

And yet they OKed all the sig spams, look at how many replies you got which are essentially rephrased on the same idea whenever someone ask something easy, LOL

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Posts like this:
"I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble with your host, good luck finding a new one."

Threads like this:
Topic: Need VPS to do so and so
Person 1: "What's your budget"
Person 2: "We cannot recommend any thing with out a budget".
Person 3: "As people have already mentioned, we can't recommend any thing with out your budget"

Topic: Need managed VPS service
OP: How many hosts can do this for $5 per month including cPanel?
Person 1: You need to increase your budget.
Person 2: You cannot find those services with in that budget.
Person 3: Increase your budget.

It's also such a massive review site now the content is dragged down with it.

In all honesty the accusations of signature spam get out of hand as well. It's not like I'm not guilty of going in and repeating what someone else has said, just to add a vote toward a common thought so they know whether there's a general agreement with it or if it's just a lonely guy replying the same thing to every thread. Not once have I ever posted so that my signature would be seen, or else I wouldn't have racked up so many posts in the vps forum long before I started offering them ;)

The Corp members area is just a huge clique as well. One prolific poster KPMedia; and I gave up on this argument long ago, was that he is in a ton of threads recommending hosts and has a best hosts list in his signature and those links have affiliate codes on them, yet the rest of us cant advertise directly to anyone.

Like someone else said, disable the sig spam and nobody would post there anymore because I suspect half the threads are people posting they're looking for hosting, and the replies themselves are probably paid forum posters to drum up threads that point back XYZ Hosting company.

@KuJoe, I just needed to vent really. I just can't understand how they think telling someone that they're in thei?re own little "world" is even border-line flaming. But it is what it is right? Making this topic and seeing others that do not like WHT as well, makes me feel extremely satisfied for some reason.

It offers some things LET doesn't, and LET offers things (namely more freedom) that WHT doesn't.

WHT is a much larger community, hence it's moderated more heavily. When/If LET get's over a million posts or over 330,000 registered members, we'll see how much it has changed.

WebHostingTalk is a good free source for business. Best not ruin your reputation there, else you're going to look like an asshat to a very large number of potential clients. I've had a handful of infractions for really minor things, but you need a lot of infractions and a severe case of retardation to unknowingly get banned.

EDIT: And at the OP. $110 is cheap for a unique design. I'd pay $110 for that design, it's not half bad. I couldn't design it, and it's not worth my time trying to hack something together from some bootstrap kit. If you can make a better design, do it. Then sell it on WHT for as much or for as little as you want.

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@KuJoe said: I used to do this. As you can see by my last activity I don't do it anymore

Is Free WHT part of WHT or they are two independent sites?

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I doubt @kujoe wants to share that...probably that dude's business is going to get a million hate emails if people know who he is, LOL

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